Features All Features Politics Long read Votes at 16: Are schools prepared for politics in the classroom? Ministers hope the move will engage young people in democracy, but schools face an uphill battle to prepare them Ruth Lucas 18h Ruth Lucas 18h Features Profile: Gareth Conyard, CEO, Teacher Development Trust It’s estimated to be a half-billion-pound industry in England, but all is not well in the world of teachers’… Lydia Chantler-Hicks 1w Lydia Chantler-Hicks 1w Features Matt Wrack, general secretary, NASUWT The new head of the NASUWT has ruled out merging with another union “for now”, insisted his lack of… Freddie Whittaker 2mo Freddie Whittaker 2mo Features Profile: Josh MacAlister, MP for Whitehaven and Workington Josh MacAlister isn’t wasting time. Weeks after becoming the MP for Whitehaven and Workington in Cumbria last July, the… Freddie Whittaker 2mo Freddie Whittaker 2mo School improvement Lessons from a 10-year school turnaround Declan Linnane took Nicholas Breakspear Catholic School from ‘inadequate’ to ‘outstanding’ with a mission to focus on inclusion. Here’s… Lydia Chantler-Hicks 3mo Lydia Chantler-Hicks 3mo Features Long read ‘I was a real fanboy, but the school had lost its way’ Fixing School 21, the ‘progressive’ education torchbearer Chaminda Jayanetti 3mo Chaminda Jayanetti 3mo Features Profile: Chris Zarraga, director of Schools North East Every August, school leaders in the north of England brace themselves for the inevitable – yet misguided – comparisons…. Freddie Whittaker 3mo Freddie Whittaker 3mo SEND Investigation ‘Burnt out and isolated’: the staff on the SEND crisis frontline SENCos will be central to any government plan to make mainstream schools more inclusive. But are their roles even… Lydia Chantler-Hicks 3mo Lydia Chantler-Hicks 3mo Profile Profile: Avnee Morjaria, IPPR IPPR associate director Avnee Morjaria has taught, inspected and worked in government. Now she is influencing policy from… Rhi Storer 5mo Rhi Storer 5mo Profile Chalke it up to experience: Lessons in being mission-driven Labour can learn a lot about belonging, inclusion and being mission-driven from Steve Chalke’s life and work, finds JL… JL Dutaut 5mo JL Dutaut 5mo Ofsted ‘What we see are wasted lives’: Meet the Ofsted illegal schools team In a rare interview, the Ofsted team tasked with tackling illegal schools speaks about the horrors they have witnessed,… Rosa Furneaux 6mo Rosa Furneaux 6mo Features A new hope for University Technical Colleges? When University Technical Colleges launched in 2010, they were hailed as the solution needed to propel young people to… Jessica Hill 6mo Jessica Hill 6mo 1 2 3 4 5 6 31 Older Must Read Covid Exclusive DfE threatened with legal action over ‘unlawful’ Covid attendance rules The government is being threatened with legal action if it fails to update attendance guidance for vulnerable children and… James Carr 4y James Carr 4y Covid Academy trusts’ cash stash rises to £3bn despite pandemic pressures Academy trusts boosted their reserves and surpluses last year despite the upheaval of Covid, official figures show. New Department… Tom Belger 4y Tom Belger 4y